United States v. Nardello’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
312 federal appellate · 27 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 518 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1990), Perrin v. United States (1979)
312 federal appellate · 27 district · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Willingham v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Burdell · Marshall v. United States · United States v. Laudani
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 518 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail, with intent to— “(3) otherwise promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, or carrying on, of any unlawful activity, and thereafter performs or attempts to perform any of the acts specified . . ., shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. “(b) As used in this section ‘unlawful activity’ means ... (2) extortion, bribery, or arson in violation of the laws of the State in which committed or of the United States.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obtaining something of value from another with his consent induced by the wrongful use of force, fear, or threats.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts to or conspires so to do, or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (b) As used in this section — * * * (2) the term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.